A story notes that
[...] according to a new U.S. Army report, Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war. The study found that the US military itself might also collapse. This could all happen over the next two decades, the report notes.
[...] The report paints a frightening portrait of a country falling apart over the next 20 years due to the impacts of climate change on "natural systems such as oceans, lakes, rivers, ground water, reefs, and forests.
Current infrastructure in the US, the report says, is woefully underprepared: "Most of the critical infrastructures identified by the Department of Homeland Security are not built to withstand these altered conditions."
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @01:27AM (8 children)
And never the opposite. What makes anyone think you can appease the soulless laws of nature with sacrifice and self-abuse??? This is medieval religion, folks.
Shaking worms out the corpse of rabid Puritanism, relabeling the vengeful central deity "teh Environment", parading the zombie out and calling the charade "progressism"; the irony is endless.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 28 2019, @03:35AM (7 children)
We've had the better tech for a good 3-4 decades now. Deliberate greed, with a dash of religious insanity of the "Bible says no more floods, ergo global warming is false" type, is stopping it from happening. A few people are getting tremendously wealthy off of deliberately holding back thorium, solar in both thermal-concentration and PV forms, wind, you name it.
They want to wait until "the market says the time is right," but by then, it'll be too late. Optimistically speaking it'll involve a hell of a lot of pain and inefficiency and lowered standards of living; more likely, with a billion or so climate refugees displaced, hungry, frightened, and angry, all of civilization will get hit hard.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Monday October 28 2019, @04:01AM (5 children)
I think your billion of refugees is woefully underestimated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @12:54PM (4 children)
He should be within a factor of 10 though.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday October 28 2019, @03:26PM (3 children)
He?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 28 2019, @11:18PM (2 children)
We can't expect a newbie AC to know, plus I kind of do talk "like a guy." Lots of active voice, not too many cutesy mannerisms, etc.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday October 29 2019, @02:14AM
That sounds like my kind of woman.
Much like my wife.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday October 29 2019, @08:11AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @03:41PM
Hint: it is not "the deniers".
The mental technique people use to be luddites while calling themselves "progressive", to pretend acting "for environment" while fighting nuclear power tooth and nail and "not noticing" the coal-fired replacement, to scream about "science!!!11" when incapable of simple math; it got a nice name: "doublethink". Enjoy.